Collections : [University of Michigan William L. Clements Library]

Provides details of a recent survey of Arrowsic Island, Maine, noting it contains less acreage and meadowlands than expected. Also includes financial accounts between Edward Hutchinson and the "Co. of the 15 Year Scheme" from January 1741 to August 1760, signed by Joshua Winslow.

Sermon on Canticles 2:14.

Admonition to live the plain life and train their children in it, to be careful in their public actions, and to remember early Friends' actions. Signed by William Dillworth. Includes a 1718 testimony against worldly fashions and vanity.

Regarding disturbances caused by Native Americans in Massachusetts; 3 women and 11 children were captured and one man killed. "The Enemy are discover'd Daily and within these few Days in almost every Part of our Frontier - 150 Are said to be come down with Design to murther and destroy our People..." Folder includes an ALS from [Roger] Wolcott to William Pitkin dated July 6, 1755.

Copies of letters pertinent to current events in New Spain. Some of these are about a group of Chinese people traveling from Spain to Acapulco [New Spain] to wait for the next ship to travel to the Philippines to return to China; a letter from the Governor of California on "spiritual conquest" of the province and its division between the Franciscians and Dominicans, and events with the Casa de Moneda in Mexico City.

Regarding the problems of Tuell, a slave trader, and the price of slaves in gallons of rum; "I Give 160 Gals For Men & 140 for women, as I Cood not git Them for Less." It has been sickly in Annamaboe; "It has ben Very sekly heare I have Ben Seck my self & Mr. Champlin Has ben Very ill."

“Memodm of the State of mind & sum Circumstances of Joanna Brown Daughter of Nicholas Brown & Rhoda his Whife [sic.] in her last Sickness.” The nearly nineteen-year-old Joanna Brown passed on January 8th due to consumption. Describes the initial stages of the illness and the decision to relocate her to Newport “so as to change her air” where she took an herbal treatment prescribed by her doctor. Religious reflections on death and dying.